Dr Chris Arter

Next Generation Chemistry

Dr Chris Arter

High-Throughput Discovery Facility Manager

Chris is the High-Throughput Discovery Facility Manager at the Rosalind Franklin Institute. Chris is working as part of the Next Generation Chemistry theme and the High-Throughput Discovery Facility to harness automated high-throughput chemistry for biologically relevant small molecule synthesis. Chris obtained his BSc in Biochemistry from the University of Sussex, before moving to the University of Leeds where he obtained his MSc in Chemical Biology & Drug Design and PhD in Chemistry. His PhD project focused on high-throughput microscale reaction arrays for the development of fragment-sized allosteric inhibitors of Aurora-A kinase.